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Subject:Re[2]: Windows '95 From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:58:00 -0500
>I'm interested in how you would perform tasks that normally require
>first selecting an item
How about dragging over the item?
<shudder> So dragging instead of clicking is an improvement??
I don't know the individual in question, LaVonna, but I've never had a problem
showing someone how to set their double-click speed on a Mac. They seem to get
it quickly, and the fact that the *computer* is willing (I know, I'm
anthropomorphizing again, but the average user does it all the time, and that's
the viewpoint I'm expressing here) to adjust to the way *they* work rather than
forcing them to adapt to it goes a long way towards lessening their "computer
fear."
Have fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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